Past Exhibitions

2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 1995 - 2000

 

Daniel Barrow
"The Face of Everything" Trading Cards
(3 of 9 in series: Charles Nelson
Reilly, Rip Taylor, Wayland Flowers), 2002/2003
felt pen and watercolour on newsprint transferred to mylar image courtesy of the artist

Shary Boyle
Untitled series, 2002
ink and gouache on paper, 24 x 32 cm
image courtesy of the artist

 

Elizabeth LeMoine
That Shadow of Yours Must be Such a Comfort to You (animation still), 2002
21 short digitally animated films
commissioned by Sadler's Wells Theatre

Naomi London
One Gargantuan Optimistic Metaphor
(installation detail), 2002
upholstered foam letters, each letter approx. 183 x 183 x 30 cm
Photo Credit: Paul Litherland and OBORO

 

Robin Arseneault
Game (installation detail), 2002 installation
photo credit: M.N. Hutchinson

 

Super Modern World of Beauty

Curator: Diana Sherlock

Super Modern World of Beauty features work by Robin Arseneault (Calgary), Daniel Barrow (Winnipeg), Shary Boyle (Toronto/Winnipeg), Elizabeth LeMoine (London, UK), Naomi London (Montreal), and Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Chicago). Working in a variety of media including, performance, drawing, video, installation, digitally animated film and soft sculpture, these artists' works resonate with what Russian poet Sergei Gandlevsky termed a "critical sentimentalism." These artists revisit beauty through their examination of desire, empathy, love, romance, nostalgia and pain.

Works in the exhibition include Robin Arseneault's stormy, soft-sculpture shipwreck installation, Capsized. Daniel Barrow's, Catalogue of the Original includes a preprogrammed slide animation and 9, digitally reproduced, miniature trading cards representing popular entertainers such as Charles Nelson Reilly, Rip Taylor and Wayland Flowers. Perfect Nature World, a collaborative project by Shary Boyle, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, combines Boyle's illustrative drawing style with Duke and Battersby's wit and childlike, poetic narrative to create a rear-projected video and drawing installation addressing social pressures experienced by youth and adults. A selection of Shary Boyle's fantastical figurative drawings of whimsical characters, and Duke and Battersby's most recent, single-channel video, Bad Ideas for Paradise are also on view. Elizabeth LeMoine's theatrically inspired work, That Shadow of Yours Must be Such a Comfort to You, develops 20 short, personal stories or memories through a series of digitally animated films and a "cast" of ten miniature sculptures. Moving from the personal to the public and the miniature to the gigantic, Naomi London's larger than life series of domestically patterned upholstered foam letters, One Gargantuan Optimistic Metaphor, spells "hope" in English, Arabic and Hebrew.